2011
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Phone-Hacking Scandal’s Latest
With more unraveling of the Murdoch/phone-hacking scandal, the consequences and reverberations of the case have grown extensive and increasingly grave. The latest development came to light this morning when Sean Hoare, a former employee of the News of the World,…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #94
EATING ★★★★★ (4 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing eating.
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The Search For Borges
Jorge Luis Borges’ writing is scattered among the annals of the University of Texas’ Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, among rare, historically-significant literary gems like hand-corrected proofs of Ulysses and a Gutenberg Bible. The Borges papers, which are made up…
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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
There’s more information coming out on the role TV and movie studios may be playing in the Netflix price increase. It looks like Europe is experiencing the new tech bubble too, with a proliferation of tech start-up bootcamps causing some…
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The Sexual Lives of Missionaries
“There were big ones and small ones and medium-sized ones, blonde and brunette, and even bald ones…” Guernica has published an excerpt from Rumpus contributor Kyle Minor’s forthcoming novel, The Sexual Lives of Missionaries. Enjoy.
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Notable New York, This Week 7/18-7/24
This week in New York A Public Space presents a reading with contributor Robert Sullivan, Brando Skyhorse and friends read at KGB Bar, a reading by Finishing Line Press poets at Cornelia Street Café, Nerd Jeopardy at McNally Jackson, Moth…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Monday, time to look at pictures of domesticated and/or two headed animals. Also hermit crabs in see-through shells. Perhaps after Neptune’s birthday last week, you are wondering when to celebrate the other planets‘. This is what bugs used to look…
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All Over Coffee #543
FameClick image to enlarge: … All Over Coffee is published in the Sunday Datebook section of the San Francisco Chronicle, on SFGate.com, and in two book collections by City Lights Press. The second and newest book, Everything is its own…
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Here Are Some Stories I Like
Here are links to some very short fiction that made my day better. This week, for some reason, they all have to do with critters. Enjoy! “I was sixteen when I saw my first, standing stock-still and straight upright, like…
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On Missing War
“Everyone tells you that you did what you had to do, and I just hate that comment because I didn’t have to do any of it. I didn’t have to join the Army; I didn’t have to become airborne infantry.…